Gnosticism and Healing

From the orthodox or conventional forms of Christianity, we understand that the Messiah who is the son of God came purposely to forgive us our “sin”, the dismissing of negative karma- he will come to sacrifice himself for the sake of remission of sin, the opposite of karma that connects souls, so as whosoever has faith in him as the Messiah may be pardoned and set free consequently receiving eternal life.

For sure, there is some sense of truth in this. Still, from a Gnostic point of view, there is something quite important in the Devine Incarnation- the said Messiah is not just the Savior who delivers souls from sin or negative karma. It is also the Gnostic Revealer and the teacher of self-realization and wisdom.

According to orthodox or major forms of Christianity, the Messiah is indeed the son of God who appears to deliver us from sin and the miracles he does are to prove that he is, really, the Son of God. Gnostic Christianity nevertheless takes a bit different view. In both Christian Kabbalah and Christian Gnosticism, the power and presence of the Divine embraced in Yeshua Messiah is inside us all, therefore, observing the living power and presence included in him, the Messiah, our actual nature and essence our actual being, is unveiled to us- he appears to exhibit our true being because we are in God. Similarly, teaching and performing miracles, he reveals our hereditary unity with the origin of our being, God, and he shows the real nature of the truth of our experience.

In a way of speaking, from a Gnostic perspective, Yeshua can be compared to a lucid dreamer who gets into the common dream we term like “reality” and the “world” for the sake of awakening us so that we could become lucid in the dream as well. Actually, in the action of radical wonderworking he does, he shows that we are quite interconnected with the presence of our existence and its source. Also, he reveals that the truth of our existence is “dream-like,” this is simply to state that it is a magical or radiant display of our individual mind, soul or consciousness.

Gnostic Healing.

Usually, the state of conflict between material and energetic being and inside our energetic being is what gives our experiences of grief and suffering, sickness, disease and adverse fortune in life- it all originates from a psychic and spiritual level, an energetic level, inside our soul, which then happens on a material and physical level. This recognition of us as material and energetic beings, and the cause of disease, illness, and adverse fortune on a befalling on an energetic level is the source of spiritual healing (Gnostic Healing)

Typically, the method of Gnostic healing is the revival of the initial state of our being as young kids, a reconstruction to the state of the primary blessing in which we are all conceived, yet that as an awakened and mature individual we are further conscious of ourselves as a co-creator joined to the universal and the origin of our being, God, the who is the True Light. In other words, it is a process of reintegration. This is the reintegration of our material and energetic being, our body and soul, and also the reintegration of our energetic being beside its source, which is the Holy One of Being.

As a matter of fact, Gnostic experience is at the right heart of the healing way, and it is an event that is threefold:

• It is an experience of more expanded or higher states of consciousness;
• It is a chance of an opening of awareness to different dimensions—metaphysical or inner dimensions, the visionary or energetic dimension;
• It is the knowledge of God gained through immediate mystical and spiritual existence of God, the success of which is a conscious sense of unification with God—our complete reintegration with the Light Continuum, which is the source of all being.

Really, in this, we may appreciate and agree that Gnostic healing is not only the relief of our suffering and pain, or the restoration of wholeness and wellness of our being in this world, but it is likewise a method upon the way to enlightenment; its main aim is the enlightenment and deliverance of our life, a healing in the body and past the body.